Well let me tell you, as you can see my art is looking a bit crappy. Why? Alot of reasons. But one big reason that is getting on my nerves is my lines on the drawing. If you dont know what lines I am talking about, here is a example:

^^ Well, your picture itself actually looks lovely. Although your line art is a bit fuzyy.. so i'd highy reccomend you completely redo it using paths. -Nodnod- But if you just wish to clean it up/adjust your greyscale levels, here's a page for you:

For starters, you need to sac the notebookpaper. Using it...you wont be able to use the method too well (that I think that guy is talking about). Its good that you're evaluating your problem with an example from Bleedman. What it looks like you lack is consistency, anatomy, technique, and detail.

There are a lot of shapes that look like...they're trying to be something but arent a solid object. EX: The circles on his shoulders, the rectangles on his fists, they don't look like anything but colored in shapes .. Try to define them a little more, like those circles I'm guessing are pins to hold up the cape? Try to make small clear areas indicating that it is indeed holding up the cape. Also, the right side of his cape just above the leg is....missing. What you could do is draw the entire cape regardless if it's behind something on not so you get a better picture of what the cape should look like altogether. As I've noticed, that seems to be what B-man does to define the shape of his heads that are under hair.

Well....I've gotta go, I'd go over the rest of it but I didn't have as much time as I thought so c ya.

Uke wrote:^^ Well, your picture itself actually looks lovely. Although your line art is a bit fuzyy.. so i'd highy reccomend you completely redo it using paths. -Nodnod- But if you just wish to clean it up/adjust your greyscale levels, here's a page for you:

From what I can see from the grain on the picture, you're not saving your pictures in a high enough resolution. You're saving them as .jpgs, right? Then when you go to save, click on Options and see if you can find something talking about Compression. Then set it as low as it'll go. That should fix the problem.

Another thing that causes grain is resizing your picture using the binary method, or resizing too small. I use Jasc, so I can't help you with PS, but mine lets me go to a drop down called "Smart Size" on the options for my resize, and that's what works best.

Also, Bleedman inks on his comp, as far as I know. The best method for that is zooming in really big, tracing over the whole thing with the pen tool (either by mouse or tablet, either way it's not very easy), and then resizing it smaller.

Or you could just take the fast way and ink the ACTUAL picture with a pen.